I think the others have hit the nail on the head with accepting people as being that way, and focusing more on you. Making it about having a personal best - yesterday you did 30min of exercise, today you want to beat yourself by doing 35min, that kind of thing. You are the only one of you out there, so the only person who can compete with you fairly is yourself! Just because someone might have lost more weight than you this week, doesn't make your achievement any less - for all you know they only lost that much more because they had so much more weight to lose initially!

My sister is one of those people who has to take everything anyone else does as a challenge - if our older sister buys a new car, she has to buy a new car, if one of her friends starts on a diet, she has to start on a diet - that kind of thing. She also takes anyone 'beating' her at those things as a personal insult. Apparently my being pg with twin girls is something I did on purpose simply to **** her off, so she hates me right now. The thing is, while we all know she really just needs to grow up, at 32 years of age we've all accepted that there isn't much we can do to change her, so we just work around her, and do our own things. Its pretty much like Emc2 does - we just give her a bored look, or say 'thats nice' or 'well done' if its warranted, and go back to what we were doing.

My extended family don't listen to me either so no advice there! I just hang out for those times when I get to do my told-you-so dance, it seems to make up for it!